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Bookmark or Share- The Tunguska explosion rocked Siberia 116 years ago - EarthSkyOn today’s date 116 years ago, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history struck on a warm summer morning in Siberia, Russia. Now, we observe Asteroid Day each year on June 30, on the...
- Tunguska event - WikipediaThe Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908.
- Tunguska event | Summary, Cause, & Facts | BritannicaTunguska event, enormous explosion that occurred at about 7:14 AM on June 30, 1908, at an altitude of 5–10 km (15,000–30,000 feet), flattening some 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) and charring more than 100 square km of pine forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, Russia.
- What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Tunguska EventRumors, conjecture, and conspiracy theories swirl around the explosion that happened near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia, in 1908. Here is what is known for sure: The explosion occurred about 7:13 AM local time on June 30, 1908.
- The Tunguska Mystery--100 Years Later - Scientific AmericanSuch is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human...
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